Anaïs Mitchell – Out Of Pawn (Guitar)
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Chords
Capo is on fret 4 but only frets 5 of the strings and leaves the low E open, so playing all the strings open
with the capo on and without fretting with your fingers it would look like: 044444
The numbers in my chord tabs from this point on will be numbered in relation to the capo (as normal) and as if
the capo is fretting all strings.
My tab is based on the version from the Xoa album, but live and on "The Brightness" album she often plays it
all one fret up (achieving this by putting a capo on the first fret and the "partial" capo on the 5th)
and also plays the beautiful picked bridge section as an intro to the song.
[Chords]
E9 - 030010
A9/C# - x03010
Esus - 033010
E - 032010
E/Eb - x20010
C#m - x02210
A - 133211
B - 355433
A9 - xx3010
A9* - xx3013
B5 - 3x003x
Bsus - 3x001x
B* - 3x000x
Bm - 3x033x
A13 - xx3030
C9 - x02200
[Intro]
(Strummed with fingers)
E9 A9/C# Esus E
[Verse 1]
E9 Hey, uncle Louie, I wrote you a song A9/C# I'm glad you got your heart out of pawn E9 I'm glad you got your king out of check A9/C# At least, that's how things stood when I saw you last
Esus E
[Verse 2]
E9 It was New Orleans before the flood A9/C# You had just met a girl! You were falling in love! E9 She lived on the levee and knew the blues A9/C# And played harmonica better than you
Esus E
[Chorus]
A9/C# In a neighbourhood bar E9 In the middle of summer A9/C# E9 Shoulder-to-shoulder A9/C# Sitting like sister and brother E9 E/Eb C#m All of the sorrows you told each other A B Esus E Rose like smoke from the room
[Verse 3]
E9 The heat and the bourbon was in your head A9/C# You were talking in tongues! You were back from the dead! E9 A9/C# And the girl and the city were one and the same
And last call never came
[Bridge]
(Fingerpicked)
A9 A9* A9 B5 C#m A9* B5 Bsus B* And I can see you swimming out into the street A9 A9* A9 B5 Bm A9 A13 C#m C9 A A9 I can hear you singing, "When I die, don't cry for me"
(play same chords around again without singing)
[Verse 4]
E9 Hey, uncle Louie, the city is spinning A9/C# She sure is pretty, you sure are grinning E9 She's leading you home from the heat of the bar A9/C# To lie on the levee and look at the stars
Esus E
[Chorus]
A9/C# E9 You can hold her hand
You can kiss her face
A9/C# E9 Go slow if you can A9/C# Cause the world is a very sad place E9 E/Eb C#m And when she leaves, she'll leave no trace A B Esus E And the world will still be there
[Verse 5]
E9 The sky is colored in purple and yellow A9/C# You lie on the levee with stones for pillows E9 And you and the girl and the city make love A9/C# E9 With the harlequin sky up above